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The Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, today presented the First National Congress 'Flamenco and the media', which will host the Performing Arts Center (ASRC) of Torre Pacheco on Friday and Saturday, October 25.
The ceremony was also attended by the Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, and the cycle director and chairman of the Press Association of Murcia, Juan Tomás Frutos.
"This meeting aims to analyze the roots of flamenco as a contemporary art with antiques but especially renovated with a huge international presence," said Martinez.
In short, it is "an area of study devoted to flamenco, not only interpreted but also represented, as we analyzed the experts, historians, journalists and representatives of the media."
For two days the CAES host in morning and afternoon sessions a series of presentations by professionals and experts in the art and specialized journalists.
Thus, the expert in musicology of flamenco, Lola Fernández, opens the series with the presentation "Flamenco.
Origins, evolution and characteristics', while the winner of the 2004 Golden Melon, Lamp Mining National Award 2005 and Active Flamenco 2008, Gema Jiménez, and the winner of the 2008 Mining Lamp, Rocio Marquez, closed the lecture make its' vision of flamenco in the XXI century. "
Other speakers in the cycle of media professionals, regional and national, on Friday discussed in the presentation "Flamenco in the press, on radio and television."
Friday's session will close with a gala Flemish Francisco Guerrero, Antonio Carrión and Sebastian Contreras on vocals, Antonio Carrión, Antonio Fernández "El Torero" and Vicente Santiago, on guitar, and the Ballet Flamenco de Lo Ferro, dancing .
The First National Congress' Flamenco and the media 'will close on Saturday at 22:15 hours with a flamenco dress by Gema Jiménez, Rocío Márquez and Sebastian Contreras on vocals, Antonio Fernández "El Torero' to guitar, and Cynthia Cano, dancing.
The First National Congress 'Flamenco and the media' is organized by the municipality of Torre Pacheco and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in collaboration with the University of Murcia, the Peña Flamenca 'Golden Melon' and the Association de la Prensa de Murcia.
Photo: (left to right): Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, the Director General for Cultural Promotion, Antonio Martínez, and the director of the Congress, John Thomas Frutos.
Source: CARM
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